"Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money."

“You state that the Bureau under the should not attack programs of community interest such as the "Breakfast for Children." … You have obviously missed the point.… This program was formed by the BPP for obvious reasons, including their efforts to create an image of civility, assume community control of Negroes, and to fill adolescent children with their insidious poison.”

“Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.”

“must be exterminated, and they must be exterminated by us.”

“We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don’t clear anybody. We don’t condemn anybody.”

“Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth. Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.”

“The menace of communism in this country will remain a menace until the American people make themselves aware of the techniques of communism. No one who truly understands what it really is can be taken in by it. Yet the individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent.”